5 Ws Printable Graphic Organizer

The 5Ws graphic organizer helps a writer organize information around an event. When you need to know who, what, when, where, and why, this is the organizer to put the information in order.
The 5 Ws organizer can work with many writing styles but is especially useful when writing a journalism piece, a current event article, or a historical fiction or historical nonfiction piece (such as a short story, a reflection, or an article). The 5 Ws is also useful with any type of writing in the social sciences: reports or articles in history, psychology, geography, and politics.
What is a graphic organizer?
A graphic organizer is a visual tool that writers use when planning a piece of writing. There are many styles of graphic organizers such as: outline, 5Ws, Venn diagram, 3 column notes, visual cluster, inverted triangle, KWL (know, want to know, learn), plot diagram, and there are many more.
Different graphic organizers tend to appeal to different writers. For example, some writers use only the traditional outline for all of their planning needs, while others will switch between organizers depending on the writing style.
How can writers use graphic organizers?
Writers use graphic organizers in the planning stage of the writing process, which is just after the brainstorming stage. Take the valuable information from the brainstorming and add it to the graphic organizer. This process allows writers to keep their important information which can be used in writing the first draft.
The 5 Ws organizer can work with many writing styles but is especially useful when writing a journalism piece, a current event article, or a historical fiction or historical nonfiction piece (such as a short story, a reflection, or an article). The 5 Ws is also useful with any type of writing in the social sciences: reports or articles in history, psychology, geography, and politics.
What is a graphic organizer?
A graphic organizer is a visual tool that writers use when planning a piece of writing. There are many styles of graphic organizers such as: outline, 5Ws, Venn diagram, 3 column notes, visual cluster, inverted triangle, KWL (know, want to know, learn), plot diagram, and there are many more.
Different graphic organizers tend to appeal to different writers. For example, some writers use only the traditional outline for all of their planning needs, while others will switch between organizers depending on the writing style.
How can writers use graphic organizers?
Writers use graphic organizers in the planning stage of the writing process, which is just after the brainstorming stage. Take the valuable information from the brainstorming and add it to the graphic organizer. This process allows writers to keep their important information which can be used in writing the first draft.